W Quotes
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“We do not just risk repeating history if we sweep it under the carpet, we also risk being myopic about our present.”
“We do not keep security establishments merely to defend property or territory or rights abroad or at sea. We keep the security forces to defend a way of life.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954
“We do not keep the outward form of order, where there is deep disorder in the mind.”
“We do not kill an Iraqi.”
“We do not kill the drama, we do not really limit its appeal by failing to encourage the best in it; but we do thereby foster the weakest and poorest elements.”
“We do not know a truth without knowing its cause.”
“We do not know and cannot tell when the spirit is with us. Great talent or small, it makes no difference. We are caught within our own skins, our own sensibilities; we never know if our technique has been adequate to the vision.”
Source: The Irrational Season
“We do not know anything - this is the first. Therefore, we should be very modest - this is the second. Not to claim that we do know when we do not - this is the third. That's the kind of attitude I'd like to popularize. There is little hope for success.”
“We do not know either unalloyed happiness or unmitigated misfortune. Everything in this world is a tangled yarn; we taste nothing in its purity; we do not remain two moments in the same state. Our affections as well as bodies, are in a perpetual flux.”
“We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the future.”
“We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the future. We shall never be able to say, "Ha! My perception, my accounting for that series, will indeed cover its next and future components," or "Next time I meet with these phenomena, I shall be able to predict their total course."”
“We do not know how God created, what processes He used, for God used processes which are not now operating anywhere in the natural universe. This is why we refer to divine creation as special creation. We cannot discover by scientific investigations anything about the creative processes used by God.”
“We do not know how much of the environmental change is due to human activities and how much [is due] to long-term natural processes over which we have no control.”
Source: A Many-colored Glass: Reflections on the Place of Life in the Universe
“We do not know how much our climate could or will change in the future. We do not know how fast change will occur or even how some of our actions could impact it.”
Source: The George W. Bush Foreign Policy Reader: Presidential Speeches and Commentary
“We do not know how to eliminate evil, but we do know how to feed some of the hungry and heal some of the infirmed.”
“We do not know how to formulate string theory nor do we know its underlying principles. Surprisingly, this fact does not stop us from making progress.”
“We do not know how we'd behave. But a lot of people facing fascism didn't become fascists. I don't happen to believe that we are all monsters.”
“We do not know if she collapsed because of overwhelming joy, extreme surprise, grave disappointment, or heavy anxiety that for the next months and years she would live with a human male, because in fact she had been honest when she told her girlfriends that she had given up on men, OR NONE OF THE ABOVE.”
“We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.”
“We do not know Lolth’s feelings for Drizzt Do’Urden,” Eskavine said. “Ever has she been coy about that particularly minor player in her grand game.”
Source: Relentless
“We do not know our fate. This may be a forever goodbye; it may only be for years. My love for you will never waver, however long or however far.”
Source: Paper Wife
“We do not know our own souls, let alone the souls of others.”
Source: Selected essays
“We do not know our own souls, let alone the souls of others. Human beings do not go hand in hand the whole stretch of the way. There is a virgin forest in each; a snowfield where even the print of birds' feet is unknown. Here we go alone, and like it better so. Always to have sympathy, always to be accompanied, always to be understood would be intolerable.”
Source: Selected essays
“We do not know the details in a day. How can we foretell the happenings in distant time.”
“We do not know the laws of God, nor their working.”
“We do NOT know the past in chronological sequence. It may be convenient to lay it out anesthetized on the table with dates pasted on here and there, but what we know we know by ripples and spirals eddying out from us and from our own time.”
Source: Ezra Pound and the Visual Arts
“We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory.”
Source: The Heart's Domain
“We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory. Like the images the photographer plunges into a golden bath, our sentiments take on color; and only then, after that recoil and that trans-figuration, do we understand their real meaning and enjoy them in all their tranquil splendor.”
“We do not know the value of Christ, if we will not cleave to Him unto death!”
“We do not know the worth of one single drop of blood, one single tear.”
“We do not know the worth of things until the circumstances defines them.”
“We do not know today whether we are busy or idle. In times when we thought ourselves indolent, we have afterwards discovered that much was accomplished, and much was begun in us.”
Source: Essays and Lectures
“We do not know what awaits each of us after death, but we know that we will die. Clearly, it must be possible to live ethically-with a genuine concern for the happiness of other sentient beings-without presuming to know things about which we are patently ignorant. Consider it: every person you have ever met, every person you will pass in the street today, is going to die. Living long enough, each will suffer the loss of his friends and family. All are going to lose everything they love in this world. Why would one want to be anything but kind to them in the meantime?”
“We do not know what education can do for us, because we have never tried it.”
“We do not know what God is. God Himself does not know what He is because He is not anything. Literally God is not, because He transcends being.”
“We do not know what happens when we sleep.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“We do not know what is being done in our name. Worse, we do not ask.”
“We do not know what is on the other side of the storm.”
“We do not know what it's like to be a bat, we do not know what it's like to be in coma. we can't even say that we know what it's like to be sleeping. We can say what it's like to be restored to consciousness after sleeping. If there are no dreams during our sleep then the sleeping life is an empty life. We might say of such a life that it's not like being anything. We protect that life on the assumption that come the morning its normal functions will be restored. Suppose it was the case however that such functions were only restored every two days... every eight days... twice a year but only briefly. I assume the point is clear. Actions that end life are irretrievable. If we are mistaken at that point there is no going back.”
Source: Consciousness and Its Implications
“We do not know what really good or bad fortune is.”
“We do not know what things look like. We know what things are like. It must be a very limiting thing,this seeing. -Aunt Beast”
Source: A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy
“We do not know what we can bear until we are put to the test. Many a delicate mother, who thought that she could not survive the death of her children, has lived to bury her husband and the last one of a large family, and in addition to all this has seen her home and last dollar swept away; yet she has had the courage to bear it all and to go on as before. When the need comes, there is a power deep within us that answers the call.”
Source: Peace, Power & Plenty (Unabridged): Before a Man Can Lift Himself, He Must Lift His Thought
“We do not know what we must endure.
But as we experience it, we sought for the grace of endurance.”
“We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.”
“We do not know when he is coming. He is coming tomorrow.”
“We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere. To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.”
Source: The Essays of Michel de Montaigne
“We do not know whether [Hipparchus] drew maps--perhaps he did--but the truth is that in his day he could not possibly have applied his projections to the globe because the necessary data, in the form of correct findings of latitudes and longitudes of a very large number of places over the known areas of the earth, were not available. This was the weakness of all Greek cartographic science. In Greek times mathematics was in advance of mechanical instrumentation: There was no instrument for easily and correctly determining the longitude of places. However, the Piri Re'is and the other maps we went on to study, seemed to suggest that such an instrument or instruments had once existed, and had been used by people who knew very closely the correct size of the earth. Moreover, it looks as if this people had visited most of the earth. They seem to have been quite well acquainted with the Americas, and to have mapped the coasts of Antarctica.”
Source: Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings: Evidence of Advanced Civilization in the Ice Age
“We do not know whether Hitler is going to found a new Islam. He is already on the way; he is like Mohammad. The emotion in Germany is Islamic; warlike and Islamic. They are all drunk with wild god. That can be the historic future.”
Source: The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Miscellaneous writings
“We do not know whether Hitler is going to found a new Islam. He is already on the way; he is like Muhammad.”
Source: The Collected Works: The symbolic life. Miscellaneous writings
“We do not know whether it is good to live or to die. Therefore, we should not take delight in living, nor should we tremble at the thought of death. We should be equiminded towards death. This is the ideal. It may be long before we reach it, and only a few of us can attain it. Even then, we must keep it constantly in view, and the more difficult it seems of attainment, the greater should be the effort we put forth.”
Source: Gandhi on Nehru